Last month @codeorg congratulated Stanford professor Jeffrey Ullman for winning the Turing Award (the Nobel prize of computer science). We then learned this professor has a long history of bigotry, especially against Iranians like myself.
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Ullman refers to the Iranian people as “Islamic terrorists in general”. For 15 years he published his "Answers to All Questions Iranian". He recently deleted it when he learned he was winning an award, but the Internet remembers: https://web.archive.org/web/20061030080448/http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/pub/iranian.html …
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Oktie Hassanzadeh Retweeted Emma Pierson
@hadip I wish he had taken down the page himself. But it seems like Stanford folks did it. See the tweet below. Ullman NEVER apologized or did anything to make it right. That’s why ACM should retract the award. It’s not about some old incidents. It’s who he is TODAY.https://twitter.com/2plus2make5/status/1377720193913356289 …Oktie Hassanzadeh added,
Emma Pierson @2plus2make5Many people are discussing how Turing Award winner Jeff Ullman used to have a webpage making offensive comments about Iranians and Native Americans, but no longer does. I want to give a shoutout to a person who played a small role in getting the page taken down,@PangWeiKoh. 1/Show this thread1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
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